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Nine kinds of hell breaking loose at our house.
Son called from college, phone call laced with expletives.
“Mom”, he starts in, “What do you mean I can’t buy ammo from Wal-Mart anymore?”.
He will be 21 in a few months, but a few months, when one is 20 is light years.
“Mom”, he continues, “Mom!!!!!!! You have to call Trump on this right away”.
I very calmly told him to call his Congressman, whom he worked for, and voice his opinion.
Yeah……. I think he will definitely vote in the mid-terms.

Something I don’t understand. Why has Trump leaving in all these Bush, Obama appointees in offices of FBI, State Dept. and the rest of the Gov’t.? These are some of the very people who are hurting our President. They are all part of the “Deep State” ! So Sundance would you kindly explain why nothing has changed? Regards

“Rooney, a member of the committee, slammed his Democratic colleagues for leaking former White House communications director Hope Hicks’ testimony, where she admitted to telling white lies for President Donald Trump.

“That’s why tonight I’ve asked our Chairman (Mike) Conaway that we need to end this investigation,” he told CNN’s Erin Burnett on “OutFront.” “It’s been going on for a year. We’ve interviewed scores of witnesses and now we’ve gotten to the point now where we’re literally bringing people in for nine hours just so the Democrats can leak to the press something as ridiculous as ‘white lies.’ ”
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Once again Democrats leak testimony to the media. Should Sessions add this to the 31 ongoing leak investigations

“Engagement on Donald Trump’s Facebook posts have dropped by approximately 45 percent since the platform introduced a new algorithm change, following a year of pressure from left-wing employees and the mainstream media for “allowing” the President to win the 2016 general election.

In January, Facebook introduced a major change to its algorithm. In a post, CEO Mark Zuckerberg claimed that the change aimed to give greater emphasis to posts from “friends, family and groups” and less to “businesses, brands and media.” The change was followed by a promise to promote what Facebook calls “broadly trusted” news sources on the platform.

In the month following the algorithm change, engagement on Donald Trump’s Facebook posts dropped sharply. Total engagement dropped by approximately 45 percent, according to data from leading social media analytics firm NewsWhip. In an email to Breitbart News, a representative of Newswhip confirmed that Breitbart’s reading of the data was accurate.”

I have a business and the way Facebook runs their ‘business’ pages is infuriating. I don’t even use my facebook business page anymore.

We would make posts, and it would go out to all our followers; we didn’t buy any followers, and only had local people who actually could buy something from our brick and mortar store as followers, essentially . So we grew our followers 1 at a time. We didn’t try to get followers from out of state, or advertise all over the world (on facebook)… and ended up with a pretty tight base of 1000 or so followers who were actual customers that had actually been in our store.

So facebook changed how they work, about 3 years ago or so. Now, instead of sending your post to all your followers…. they would only send it to like… 5 percent. So most of your followers never even see your posts.

If you don’t post anything for a month, then post again, they send the post to all your followers… as soon as you start posting frequently again, though, they go back to their old ways.

It makes it a big waste of time for a small business to use facebook, at least in our situation.

They’ve changed the way they do things again it seems with politicians (or right wing politicians) but I’m positive President Trump and his team will work around that.

I follow small businesses I’m interested in and what infuriates me is I’ll get a post twenty hours after it is sent and the post will be about a sale or something else time sensitive and I’ve missed it.

Yes! This is not rocket science… PDJT’s strategy is on full (VSG) glorious display. The reptilians are slowly but SURELY being coralled. Trapped like rats with nowhere to go. And oh so overwhelmed… relish these days of winning! Thank you Lord for this man in our times…

I did some prepping a couple of years ago (survival food, water, Red Cross radio, Heritage seeds, etc.) but I need to buy some more ammo, just in case. ‘Course my neighbor across the street has a virtual armory, and the gunsmith 5 houses down from me is handy. Plus, living out here in a tiny town in flyover country will provide some cushion.

Nooooo! Rejoice, Dixie! We, the Good Guys are smokin’ ’em… the Left keeps stomping all over us? Who are they? The minority fringe with the MSM in cahoots? Weak, and weaker by the day! We the People have some really cool allies: Trust in the Lord with all your heart… America is founded on Judeo-Christian values… we’ll take this country back on that basis alone; and, keep their coats to boot…

I remember all the “sky is falling” over DACA. Nothing came of it. Same here and every time there has been a shooting. I’m beginning to think the uniparty likes decisive issues like immigration and guns. Nothing will be solved, but they can keep raising money every time an issue comes up. Never let a good crisis go to waste.

At least with immigration there is an actual solution to fix the system it’s just untenable to the Uniparty. There is no way to stop violence. People have murdered each other since Cain gave Abel a love tap with a shovel.

But yes, much of this is about raising money. Hopefully it doesn’t translate into legislation. I still put blame on POTUS for even entertaining this conversation. I don’t need more heartburn, Donald!

There is a legitimate divide in the MAGA camp after Trump’s meeting with legislators today and his openness to passing gun control. There are people attacking the President for breaking his campaign promises on one side and people defending him on the other saying he’s not serious and it’s another fake out like the DACA amnesty meeting.

I don’t know what the President actually wants but in my book he dropped many places today because he allowed gun control to even be discussed. Hopefully nothing comes of it (Paul Ryan is oddly our hero tonight for saying the House won’t pass any gun control, who would have thought that would ever happen?) but he still messed up by even considering it.

Another self inflicted wound in communications from the White House. Just the latest in a long string of communications disasters like the Syrian airstrike and DACA and the Rob Porter thing. It’s all so tiresome.

Reminds Me of “Game of Thrones” …
Trump,,, We ALWAYS pay Our Debts..
“The Trump for President campaign sent a $4,000 check to UNC Wilmington Wednesday, more than a year and a half after it held a rally at Trask Coliseum for then-Republican nominee Donald Trump.
The issue of the existing debt came to light after WECT started investigating whether presidential campaigns paid their bills from public rallies held in Wilmington during the 2016 presidential campaign.
The rally at Trask Coliseum appears to be the only event where a candidate continued to owe money.**
Paid.. #maga

That was succinct, rf121. The politicians are playing political games, as usual; PDJT is playing to win… not taking names, not taking prisoners, just kicking there butts at every turn… Q: these people are really stupid…